Should I stop updatingg?

[ethereal]

i am on 12.0-U3 at the moment - my server is very stable and very simple. i have two pools using smb and only 1 jail.

What i was thinking of doing is updating 12.0 all the way but not bothering with 12.1.
does anybody have any comments on my plan?

 

[danb35]

I don't think it'd be possible to intelligently comment on the plan until 12.1 comes out. Broadly speaking, it should be safe to stay on an old release for a while, and it'd likely stay usable for a good while (eventually, protocols will be deprecated, but we'd probably see TrueNAS 16 before that would be any kind of a problem). The problem would be with specifics--iX doesn't do much in the way of maintenance releases on old versions, so if a showstopper of a security or integrity bug comes up in the 12.0 series after 12.1 (or 13.0, or whatever) comes out, you may need to upgrade to 12.1 to address it. But I don't know the likelihood of that, and I doubt anyone else does either.

 

[ThreeDee]

whatever you are running in your jail might dictate/necessitate that you update at some point .. maybe

If you don't need to update .. then don't if you don't want to .. if you do need to update .. then update

 

[Ionicdude]

It's a calculation that you have to evaluate yourself. How much risk are you willing to bear versus what you and your users expect in terms of new features? You reduce your uptime expectations based on a desire to be on the cutting edge. Google calls this practice Site Reliability Engineering and they wrote an entire book on it!

 

[ethereal]

It's a calculation that you have to evaluate yourself. How much risk are you willing to bear versus what you and your users expect in terms of new features? You reduce your uptime expectations based on a desire to be on the cutting edge. Google calls this practice Site Reliability Engineering and they wrote an entire book on it!

i am a home user - with irreplaceable home video and photographs. also music and videos

 

[Mlovelace]

irreplaceable home video and photographs

If this statement is even remotely true, then you should be following the 3-2-1 rule for data protection, and what happens to a single server shouldn't matter to the security of your data. That being said, update when you have to, not just because something new was released.

-best of luck

 

[pschatz100]

I rarely update more than 2 times in a year. At the end of the day, if the system is working, there is no need to update unless there is some compelling reason to do so. Check the changelogs on a new release, and if there is nothing there that matters to you then don't update.

Constant updating is a Windows mind-set.

 

[adrianwi]

My update strategy is pretty erratic - some times I'll update within a few days-weeks of a release and other times it might be several months. I don't think it's a great approach to leave things too long though and certainly not beyond anything going EOL